@ogier i do agree here, but to be honest using backend for frontend while you have traditional backend for manipulating the data seems like you have small go-kart inside the car so you drive go-kart to drive the car.

I get the use case for bff that next js promotes, but you probably don't need it.

I also agree that modern tooling resolved most of the issues we had in past, so i am okay with using the new shiny toys, but sometimes for some things i just ask myself why use it if we have solution that is equally competent with fewer hoops to jump through and does the job well.

I just hate the marketing hype of the next, its like saying buy this coffee because its vegan! Cool stuff, now vegans can drink coffee too, before it was made of... , oh wait, it was always vegan... But most people don't get to the last part because they have attention span smaller than they have TTL on their shiny next website.

@glowFX well i don't think it's normal to ise tank to kill the fly. For most websites astro or even 11ty is enough, why astro/11ty and not just pure html,css and js?

Well i am not a caveman and i want to make my work to be done gaster and smarter.

Most frameworks are used for web apps and that's a complete different can of worms when you compare them with websites.

But is it unnecessarily complex? It is because humans are bad at elegantly solving the problems - not in general but vast majority is, there's always that dude who is email dedicated developer that will slip table into the layout.

Too many jacks with too many trades

@JS-Guy breadboards are bread and the element kits are the butter of starting electronics hobby.

@hjk101 also this. I support your way of thinking!

We have same train of tought for somany matters!

I always default to simpson color but not to be neutral, but to be ignorant on purpose - especially on the matters that divide us as a humanity.

In reality, if you're POS you're POS regardless of you skin color, what you have between your legs or which is your position in a society.

If you're decent person. You could be an purple alligator as long as i am concerned...

@Lensflare yeah, this can be tricky, small mistake can cost you literally.

I fried my laser diode by making stupid mistake, attached to 9v battery directly to see if it can be brighter! 🤦‍♂️

It can't, now it just has faint glow.

One more tip: use glass fuses, you can get like 20 for 2 euros, it can save your board. if the circuit has to draw up to 2A and if the elements can take 2A without burning, put the 2A fuse near the power supply, any surcharge and charge flyback will burn the fuse and save your boards/elements - this might not be the best advice, i usually calculate everything before assembly so i dont use fuses much.

@gitstashio learn basic elements first and what they do. get good at soldering, buy good soldering iron/station, start with through the hole elements, SMDs can be tricky.

Find formulas for calculating different things, i dont know the formulas but i know what to google to get them. If you are good at basic math, those formulas will be easy to use.

Buy some cheap ass mcus like esp32 or pi pico and start doing some projects. There are also starter kits with small amount of different elements those are enough to get you started.

KiCad, your own pcbs etc can come later, focus on simpler things first, when you get good at those, upgrading your skills will be much easier.

Google is your friend.

Tl;dr: just build stuff, same as with programming

@jestdotty thanks on direction, i am on the end of my wits with undeleting the files.

i feel it is better to get what i can and the install the game in different folder then just merge them.

It was small korean mmo back in 2008-2010 when i was in college ( yeah i am that old), fast action tons of fun, game just disappeared over the night, they just pulled the plug. Crazy!

@jestdotty what is needed to reverse engineer the mmo server? The whole installed game with server updates, right? Just instalation file for client isn't enough to determine what server is sending and how...

Am I on the right path?

There is one game that vanished from the existence and I am undeleting my old hard drives to get the client installation folder...

I am also thinking that people are over engineering everything in the last 2 decades.

I see raspberry pi (not pico) used to run handheld gameboy emulator

Its like using the helicopter to get to the store that would take you 2 minutes of walking straight!

Too much resources to achieve something that could work with a tiny fraction of those resources.

I am into electronics so i am talking from my experience

Simple answer YES

A bit more complex answer is yes but because of money.

You push to vercel, use cloudflare, use s3, use shitton of 3rd party services that you have to pay. What you really need is a ftp and old school cpanel hosting

Ok node support needed, let go to render, flyio, heroku, whatever and pay there!

Have a docker, there is a droplet for 5$ on digital ocean.

Self hosting is 5$ a month and you can use coolify to self host pretty much anything. Show that middle finger to tech bro corpos!

@blindXfish - since my nickname is what it is lemme explain you from a point of view from someone who is in web dev since 2001.

1. NextJs is a cancer, a curse word marketed (ton of money spent on marketing) as best thing since sliced bread, in reality there are better options - i don't say that it has no use case, but like redux, you probably don't need it! At all!

2. Dockerizing a simple website is like making a car garage for your skateboard, bad analogy but you get what i want to say

3. Pin code access to add new link - weird flex, simple auth is enough, heck markdown pushed to github is enough

4. Database with 3 tables - that's weird one, unless it is SSG than database is there to store the data, i would opt for markdown instead in any case

5. Infra monitoring - sense? has none!

6. 47 libraries? Like you need 11ty or astro and maybe tailwind if you're into it, maybe, just maybe alpine and some animation library if you want to go crazy

Webdev sounds like a bad joke in 2025

@kiki nice, i recently tried low profile, much faster typing but much higher error rate so i went back to high profile.

The more i look at kick75, the cooler it is!

Kikcing that 75 high or low? Or both?

I pirate music because mp3 is on my device. Also way less than in the 90s/00s when music was expensive in my poor ass country - CDs actually costed double of today's prices.

Very often i buy physical CDs of the artist i want to support - if available, a lot of times it is also just a bandcamp purchase.

Also media from some genres aren't really available. Like where do i buy cd from obscure visual key / jRock band from 90s? Where do i buy that media online? It's available on torrents though.

Especially hard when you live in central/east Europe where even some mainstream music can't be found!

@jestdotty idk, it doesn't look like anything to me!

@MM83 every friggin person who came to me with the same argument of having classitis in the html/template

Did you read the documentation? I know you didn't.
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/...

Inlining CSS with TW is good ONLY for getting the shit done right BEFORE YOU MOVE IT TO THE @apply inside the class

You get smaller footprint and pure css inside the class after compiling!

But you do you, just don't blame the tool you didn't invest time to learn.

Dead internet is no longer conspiracy theory, its just a matter of time when it will happen

@kiki probably 'exit' then return

How much did they chipped in as a sponsor?

Tencents?

@MM83 i don't get it, i have fucked up codebases on a client project where i updated tailwind to the last version because we introduced latest shadcn/ui canary and all the other buzzworded shit that is trendy right now.

It took me maybe 2 fucking hours to read the documentation, drink a coffee and fix the shit in multiple repos.

Don't get me wrong, if it is not the skill issue, then you have codemonkeys in a team who glouriously failed by using it wrong - no matter how hard it is to use it wrong.

It's a fucking tool and i am genuinely interested why did you had to update it - was it developer vanity or marketing/pm/ceo decisionor something completely else. Also v4 works fine with old configuration files or you just add it as a vite plugins and inject the config file there.

@Lensflare i know about handy - it was weird when i heard it

You are right, people here also say wifi, the thing is that i worked as isp support for 5 years as a student and the led light for wifi is marked as WLAN on the routers.

I guess it stuck with me

@Lensflare Croatian, but close enough since there is a lot of Croats living in Germany

@YourMom the thing ng is that i don't want google phone, I don't want Samsung's bloatware and pricey phone with semi-shitty specs, xiaomi went to shit also.

I ended up buying old iphone, will see how rhtat shit goes, at this point i am thinking about making my own comm device or just buying phone from the early 2000s like nokia 3310 old version, i think i have nokia 1100 somewhere but will have to check if it works on 4g.

I am literally thinking about having just a phone/sms device and other device that connects to just to the wlan

@YourMom maybe there is a relation to that stupid moniker rock-star developers! XD

@retoor ok, but i think it depends on the person, i ain't misanthrope but i don't like public, people gatherings and social events.

I guess the answer to the question: is sucking upgrade or downgrade from shitting around the other people's bushes is similar to questions if this or that architecture is better

It depends!

@Lensflare i am ms hater I don't use windows but the windows phone was hand down million times better and more intuitive than the android which was and still is a pos garbage system.

What killed ms phone was stupid approach to the app market.

Such a shame. I still have lumia and use it as a music player, even sound output was way way better than on android

@kiki i played 28*14 games, and i am not ashamed!

If anyone intereste, it was on Ericsson T28 mobile phone, you had to turn it sideways to play tetris on it!

Heck i played 2*2 games on Atari, the whole screen is a fucking pixel!

@Liebranca that souds cool to me!

@retoor i tought that he shits around in other people's bushes, sucks does look like a downgrade to it!